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Inflamed brain caused Alaska Airlines attack
By KIM CURTIS, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (October 20, 2000 7:23 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - A passenger who broke into the cockpit of
an Alaska Airlines plane and lunged for the controls last March was having
a rare reaction to encephalitis, lawyers on both sides agreed.
Prosecutors and the defense attorney for Peter Bradley, 39, were working
Friday on a plea bargain.
Bradley has no memory of the attack, and experts needed weeks to unravel
the medical mystery, according to his attorney, Jerrold Ladar. They
concluded that encephalitis - an inflammation of the brain - had made him
delirious.
The plane was traveling from Mexico to San Francisco on March 16 when
Bradley, returning from a family reunion, began babbling incoherently,
stripping off his clothes and wandering from seat to seat. He then broke
into the cockpit yelling, "I'm going to kill you!" and grabbed for the controls.
The pilot momentarily lost control of the jet as the co-pilot used an ax to
fend off Bradley, who is 6-foot-2 and weighs 250 pounds. Passengers
tackled him and held him down.
Bradley was charged with committing a violent act likely to endanger an
airplane and assaulting a flight crew, federal offenses that carry up to 20
years in prison each. A trial had been set for Oct. 30.
He was freed on $100,000 bail and returned to his job as a carpenter in
Blue Springs, Mo. He has suffered no subsequent outbursts.
Bradley's behavior mystified doctors and lawyers, friends and family. He
had no alcohol or illegal drugs in his system and no history of psychiatric
problems. His only run-ins with the law were two traffic violations in 1979.
He had been suffering from headaches for almost a month, however, and
his condition worsened with a lack of sleep and the changing air pressure
in the plane, his lawyer said. Doctors finally considered encephalitis.
Doctors on both sides agreed on the diagnosis, Ladar wrote in court
papers. "Two highly qualified neurologists ... concur that Mr. Bradley was in
a delirious state as a result of encephalitis," the lawyer said.
"When he read the reports from the passengers about what happened, he
was horrified," Ladar said.
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